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Thursday, 26 May 2016

Vote for Yourself

It’s hard to imagine how much lower the Remain campaign
can sink after the ‘white thug’ poster, the clear implication being that if you
vote to leave you must be an under-educated, unemployable white racist and only
the combined forces of loveliness – see the sweet white-haired Asian lady – can
thwart the evil demons of darkness. I only hope the Leave flag-wavers don’t
continue down the undignified road of tit-for-twat insult exchange the
referendum has become. This isn’t about what type of people we are, it’s about
who owns us and whether we can do anything about it.

They say what’s yours is yours, but that’s true only as
long as you can hold onto it. Die intestate and the crown will gleefully pick
through your belongings. Even alive ‘your’ land can be repossessed by the state
at will, for that new bypass or stadium or HS2. Keep your money in a bank and
the government can dip into it whenever they wish; some western governments
already have. Hide the loot under your bed and inflation will gradually erode
its worth – although with Japan trialling negative interest rates, stuffing
your mattress might yet be a good idea. But don’t hoard Euros – who knows what
that will be worth in a year – go for dollars or better yet, gold.

The world is falling apart – South America appears to be
fucked – Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina all riddled with corruption and
dysfunctional government. Europe is struggling with immigration and identity
crises and the popular ‘far right’ is feared by the commissioners who have
decided to give themselves the power to ignore any democratically elected administrations
they deem not to hold the views of the European dream. In America, Donald Trump, supported by many millions, is regularly harangued as
some kind of Nazi. And meanwhile everywhere the rise of islam continues
unchecked and largely ignored except by the howling voices of the Nazi-like, ‘anti-Nazis’.
The BBC documentary about white flight from the East End only added more
hateful grist to their perpetual milling.

So, who do you trust? Post Referendum Day, in or out, one
thing won’t have changed – ‘they’ are not on your side. If anybody is expecting
anything to be settled they will be sorely disappointed. The state will
continue to increase its costs and the burden will continue to fall on the same
shoulders. The NHS will remain in permanent crisis and we will lurch from one
hated Parliament to the next. There can probably be no such thing as British independence
any more; as a nation we are already history. There seems to be only one
solution; take matters into your own hands and look after yourself.

Holidays will cost more? Take fewer holidays; the annual
jetting off to the sun is a recent and unnecessary indulgence and often causes
more strife than staying at home. Energy costs up and supplies uncertain? Learn
to rely less on the certainty of cheap fuel; put on a jumper, walk to work if
you can and turn the bloody lights off. Food prices rising? You already spend
far too much on processed stuff that’s full of sugar; buy fresh, stop filling
the fridge with anytime snacks and lose a few pounds of flab, fatty.

If we can’t control who governs us – and the evidence all
points that way – we should learn to rely less on that government and more on
ourselves. Stand on your own two feet and be as self- sufficient as you
possibly can; see how liberating that feels. Live within your own means and
don’t expect anybody to top up those means; if you ‘need’ those tax credits and
fear their loss the government has you where it wants you. Stop thinking the
government is on your side – it is on nobody’s side but government. So, come
the big day, vote whichever way you wish, it will probably make little difference.
But do yourself and your family a favour; if we can’t free the country we might
still have a chance of freeing ourselves.

1 comment:

You are advising personal responsibility and self reliance. Those words meaning have long since been lost. Government now we hold responsible for and rely upon for everything which is precisely why it is all going wrong.